On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:02 PM, B. Bogart <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ben@ekran.org">ben@ekran.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One thing that is clear is that the CPU overhead is too high, but the<br>
disk usage very very low. I&#39;d rather balance things out to use more disk<br>
IO to save decoding cycles.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>That is the key to all codecs.  Uncompressed doesn&#39;t require CPU to decode but the disk requirements can be very high.  Delivery codecs like MPEG and H.264 are the reverse situation. <br></div><div>
<br>Use a JPEG based or professional capture codec like DVC whenever possible.  <br></div></div>